Sentences with phrase «fueling further global warming»

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The finding suggests that an increase in hurricanes and tropical storms induced by global warming could turn forests into overall emitters of carbon dioxide, fuelling further climate change.

(Reuters)- The U.S. electric industry knew as far back as 1968 that burning fossil fuels might cause global warming, but cast doubt on the science of climate change and ramped up coal use for decades afterward, an environmental watchdog group said on Tuesday.

Leaving politics aside, for the people around the world who inhabit as much as 71 % of the world's coastlines and are surrounded by oceans, this is not just a statement on a piece of paper, but a commitment of world leaders to take the wellbeing of our further generations to heart, to tackle the burning of fossil fuels and global warming collectively.

Realistic large - scale solar panel coverage could cause less than half a degree of local warming, far less than the several degrees in global temperature rise predicted over the next century if we keep burning fossil fuels.

The drought - induced decline of carbon - dense tropical forests and their replacement by lower - carbon savannas would release enormous amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere, amplifying global warming far beyond the effects of just the CO2 released by burning fossil fuels.

Those who study energy patterns say we are in a gradual transition from oil and coal to natural gas, a fuel that emits far less carbon but still contributes to global warming.

The articles revealed that Exxon's top management (NYSE: XOM) knew as far as back as the late 1970s of the threat of global warming from the burning of fossil fuels.

Addressing the atmospheric concentrations of GHGs, Saudi Arabia cautioned against «giving policy makers the message that CO2 drives global warming» and further highlighted that not all CO2 emissions result from fossil fuel combustion.

I know many on this site beleive peak oil is a bigger threat than global warming, but I can't help but think the 20 - 100 year time lag between CO2 release and maximum effect is a far less addressable than issues of increasing fossil fuel prices.

Far from making climate change a priority, Obama in 2012 — the guy trying to get elected — was an avowed champion of all fossil fuels, which, of course, are the alleged cause of supposedly terrifying global warming.

London, 19th April 2013 — Today new research by Carbon Tracker Initiative and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at London School of Economics and Political Science reveals that despite fossil fuel reserves already far exceeding the carbon budget to avoid global warming of more than 2 °C, $ 674 billion was spent last year finding and developing new potentially stranded assets.

The money spent on the Flannery ads would have been far better spent on ads dispelling some of the misinformation concerning the safety of nuclear energy, which if adopted in place of fossil - fuel power generation will make a much bigger impact on global warming.

They found that, as humans burn ever more fossil fuels to release ever higher levels of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, to stoke yet further global warming and trigger catastrophic climate change, all 571 cities will experience ever greater heatwaves: that is, three consecutive days and nights at which temperatures are about as high as they have ever been for that city.

An error in a recent IPCC report has fueled the fire further for global warming skeptics.

Far and above all the other so - called evidence used in attempts to show that a sinister industry plot exists is what I term the core evidence: the set of leaked memos from way back in 1991 — supposedly from the Western Fuels Association's «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) public relations campaign — containing the alleged strategy to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» where the targeted audience was «older, less educated males» and «younger, lower income women.»

This type of biodiesel produces far less toxic and global warming emissions compared to conventional diesel fuel, and is sourced, produced, and sold locally.

The current plan seems to be that when the oil begins to run out and the price of gas is to high, then it becomes affordable to convert oil sands in Canada to fuel (Downside is more Co2 released further contributes to global warming).

Fuelling controversy further, Muller wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal, which an editor gave the title, «The Case Against Global Warming Skepticism — There were good reasons for doubt until now».

Fuelling controversy further, Muller wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal, which an editor titled «The Case Against Global Warming Skepticism: There were good reasons for doubt until now».

The Clean Power Plan aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil fuel - fired power plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 — still a far cry from what is needed to meet our commitments under the Paris Climate Accord to keep global warming at or below 2 degrees Celsius.

Add to the fact that the «solutions» to a problem (which may be man made or man made - up) is cap and trade and carbon credits only further fuels the skepticism - particularly when the very ones who are pushing the global warming agenda are those who are in a position to profit from it (ie Al Gore).

Gingrich, who in 2007 told The New York Times that it was conceivable human beings were playing a role in global warming, went further in a recent interview when he said he doubted there was a connection between climate change and the burning of fossil fuels.

There are also concerns that pumping sequestered CO2 into oil and gas wells to help make the fuels easier to pump out of the ground will lead to further consumption of fossil fuels, and CO2 emissions, thus adding to global warming.

Further, the extreme heat and crop death that occurs such as in Subs - Saharan Africa due to the growth of fossil - fuel emissions and resulting global warming is enhancing heat - stress mortality and famine - related mortality.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

Further, the suits allege that these companies — BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Shell — have known for decades that using fossil fuels drives global warming, and yet they not only have continued to do so, but also have intentionally deceived the public regarding the consequences.

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I'd say the biggest and potentially most murderous swindle being practised at present is the pretence that the evidence for anthropogenic global warming is not strong enough to merit immediate and far - reaching action to reduce usage of fossil fuels.

The kid plaintiffs, ages 9 to 20, allege the federal government is doing far too little to keep dangerous global warming in check, and is actually creating warming by leasing federal property for fossil fuel extraction.

Natural gas is a fossil fuel whose emissions contribute to global warming, making it a far less attractive climate solution than lower - and zero - carbon alternatives such as energy efficiency and renewable energy.

And yet, in the face of global warming caused by fossil fuel use, the current administration has so far moved sluggishly to address our addiction to these fuels and its damaging dovetail with public lands management.

The accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid by the fossil fuel industry to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» has two parts: the 1991 - ’95 span when it got little public interest, and late 1995 to the present, when it became far more widespread.

What I am talking about is, that it seems to me that with regard to climate science, this blog spends far too much time responding to the phony, trumped - up «debate» fueled by denialist drivel, and not enough time addressing the legitimate scientific question as to whether it is in fact too late to prevent global warming and climate change that will be catastrophic to human civilization, not to mention the entire Earth's biosphere.

Speaking with bianet, Aşıcı said that the project would increase Europe's dependency on fossil fuel, which in turn produced the greenhouse gas that led to further global warming.

Unless and until fresh and more reliable data and science show continuing global warming, and point at CO2 as the cause, there will not be any further serious action on the part of the government (Labor or Liberal) to curb burning of fossil fuels.